Villa 3 slaapkamers, 300 m²

Manoppello, Pescara (provincie)

Study-House with swimming pool
on the border with the Majella National Park
Abruzzo
Italy

1,500,000 €
3 bedrooms villa, 300 m²
Manoppello, Pescara (province)

This spectacular contemporary architecture is resting on the top of a hill, which
dominates the farm on which it is built.

The distinctive feature of the building is the formal purity, which resumes -
further simplifying it - the typical shape of the Abruzzo barns and agricultural
buildings in the area. Just from the observation of the houses in raw ground or
"mud houses" (rural dwellings built with a simple mixture of straw, water and
land) that inhabited the territory, and from the observation of the chromatic
relationship that these have with the surrounding natural landscape, the
particular reality of the building comes, accompanied by a particularly long and
careful technical and construction study.
The external coating of the building which is inspired and ideally bonded to
these presences, enhances in particular the symbiotic relationship with the
surrounding landscape.
The external coating consists of clay slabs pierced that, previously split halfway
by a steel blade, have been applied on the external surfaces of the entire
building (faced and roof) becoming an aesthetic element, freeing yourself of
one's strictly construction function. The supply of the external coating is by the
Wienerberger AG S.p.a.
The building extends over an extended plan of rectangular shape and is
characterized by a central housing structure that houses: the entrance, the
kitchen, two bathrooms, the library, the bedrooms and a small service room.
The central block is spread over two levels and divided into two portions of
equal size the entire full space (study and living room). The cushioning consists
entirely of standard poplar plywood panels.
On the northeast side of the building the industrial concrete 7oor continues
uninterruptedly towards the outside with a overhang in which the swimming pool
is located (7.50 x 4.20 m).
The windows on the ground 7oor constitute one of the most characteristic
elements of the building, framing spectacular unspoilt views of particular
landscape charm (the Gran Sasso d’Italia, the Massif of the Majella and the
surrounding hills). It is the views and the visual relationship between interior and
exterior that highlight and strengthen the link of the intervention with the genius
loci.
A simple gravel road connects the entrance of the property to the building.

Certification

-The house is built in accordance with anti-seismic regulations.
-Energy Performance Certificate (EPL).
- Declaration of conformity of water systems, draining, Art-in heating.
- Declaration of conformity of the electrical system.
-Declarations of conformity with the plumbing and electrical system of the pool.
-Certificate of the Province of Pescara on the discharge of domestic sewage
water with the phytodepuration system.
The heating system is underfloor heating (Velta). In the living room there is also
a wood-burning stove from the 30s (JØtul 118) designed by the Norwegian
artist Ørnulf Bast). Each room on the upper foor has heating.

Property identification data

Building surface: 392 sqm commercial, of which 300 sqm internal walkable.
Category: A7, 12 rooms.
Year of construction: 2014.
The building was built within a agricultural land (36.275 sqm) entirely fenced, on
which there are cherry trees, walnuts, olive trees and oaks.
The land is particularly suitable for vineyard cultivation.
The overall area of the farm is potentially implementable with the purchase of
the neighboring land. It is also expandable, the area of the building of about 80
square meters.
In the complex, the area of the surrounding territory is identified by the presence
of vine-winning farms and land planted with olive trees.

Awards and Honours

-In 2014 (08.05.G214) the architectural project is finalist at the Wienerberger
Brick Award 14 in Vienna. President of the Jury is the architect Wang Shu,
Premio Priztker 2012.
-In 2014 (19.09.G214) receives the honorable mention at the Fritz Höger Preis
für Backstein-Architektur of Berlin in the category "Einfamilienhaus /
DoppelhaushKlfte". It is the only Italian architecture to receive the nomination.
-In 2015 (02.05.2015) the English magazine “designboom” inserts the building
in the TOP 10 lists of 2015 - private houses.
-In 2015 (05.09.2015) the project wins the Premio Ad'A – Architetture
dell’Adriatico.

Selected bibliography

-Brick 14 : award-winning international brick architecture, Monaco, Verlag Georg
D. W. Callwey Gmb H & Co. KG, 2014, pp. 112-115.
-Vorteile das Backstein-Magazin, No. 10/2015, pp. 62-63.
-Vorteile das Backstein-Magazin, No. 13/2016, pp. 30-35.
-Moderne Einfamilienhäuser aus Backstein : nachhaltig, vielseitig, individuell,
München, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2016, pp. 36-41.
-The Plan - Architecture and Technologies in Detail, on www.theplan.it,
06.04.2018.
-Il Giornale dell’Arte, No. 408/2020, sez. "Vedere in Abruzzo" supplement (vol.
5), p. 9.
-Exibart, No. 109/2020, p. 57.
-Living, No. 10/2021, supplement of Corriere della Sera, No. 237, 6 October
2021, pp. 4, 200-209.

Distances

-from Rome: 188 km
-from the Pescara airport: 25 km
-from Pescara ( Adriatic Sea and beach): 30 km
-from L’Aquila: 79 km
-from Passolanciano-Maielletta (ski Eelds): 19 km
-from the Coast of the Trabocchi (Mare Adriatico): 31 km.
-from the Majella National Park: 5 km. The Park is a place of excursions, long
walks in nature or climbing on the living rock. Set in the rock there are the
Hermits, ancient places of worship, built by hand by the first men of faith that
have landed in Abruzzo even before the year 1000. Most of the Hermits are
connected to each other by a long itinerary (70 km to be divided into several
stages) designed to make these places of faith admire without ever having to
leave the paths of the Park.
-from the Gran Sasso National Park and Laga Mountains : 30 km.
-from the Abbey of Santa Maria d'Arabona : 3 km.
-from the “Basilica del Volto Santo”: 4 km.